Re: [gentoo-server] nptl in production

[Kashani]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Bart Braem wrote:

> I am running a server that sometimes get's a lot of traffic and we
> experienced some problems due to the amount of processes. We are
> considering using nptl for our apache2 server, does that work? Is it
> considered stable enough?
>
> Thanks for any advice!

	Generally your module and libs support goes to hell when you turn
on threading in Apache2. mod_php itself is considered to be thread safe,
but adding in various things like imap support will break it because the
imap libs aren't thread safe. Most of the people who are using threaded 
Apache2 are using it for very specific applications where they can avoid 
supporting the usual module madness that general hosting requires.

	There are a number of performance hacks you can do such as running
multiple webservers, one for dynamic content and one for static content.  
If you want to talk more about what you're doing and need to support I can 
try to make some suggestions.

kashani